Nvidia 750 TI problem

I had followed advice from one person on here and it just did not work out the way he say it would I had tried 2 ways.
1 way was download the driver from nvidia web site and do a make install
Then I start my desktop seeing only one screen. Then I open terminal and type in code nvidia-xconf

It writes to xorg.conf and I see nothing but colors and I can not read anything at all so I blindly go back to root and type in mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.bak

The only way i get xfce or mate working is if i type in startx

then i exit root and type in
code:start x
Yay i get both monitors working but it will not stay that way on next boot
this happens even if i install pkg install nvidia-driver

can someone help me with this please
 
1 way was download the driver from nvidia web site and do a make install
Don't do that. You don't need this and it doesn't register in the package system, so it's difficult to remove and/or update. Just use the port or package, there's nothing to gain from compiling the source yourself.

and i see nothing but colors
You probably need to load the nvidia-modeset module instead of nvidia.

sysrc kld_list="nvidia-modeset"

Code:
Starting with version 358.09, some important functionality of the driver
has been broken out into a separate kernel module, nvidia-modeset.ko.
Users that experience hangs when starting X11 server, or observe

        (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
        (II) NVIDIA(0):     "NULL"

in /var/log/Xorg.0.log should replace ``nvidia'' with ``nvidia-modeset''
in their /boot/loader.conf or /etc/rc.conf configuration files, depending
on how they prefer to load NVidia driver kernel module.

While you're at it; rm -rf /etc/X11/*

Code:
cat > /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-nvidia.conf <<DRIVER
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Card0"
        Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection
DRIVER


It's so easy to install and use, but for some reason everybody manages to completely mess this up.
 
Don't do that. You don't need this and it doesn't register in the package system, so it's difficult to remove and/or update. Just use the port or package, there's nothing to gain from compiling the source yourself.


You probably need to load the nvidia-modeset module instead of nvidia.

sysrc kld_list="nvidia-modeset"

Code:
Starting with version 358.09, some important functionality of the driver
has been broken out into a separate kernel module, nvidia-modeset.ko.
Users that experience hangs when starting X11 server, or observe

        (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
        (II) NVIDIA(0):     "NULL"

in /var/log/Xorg.0.log should replace ``nvidia'' with ``nvidia-modeset''
in their /boot/loader.conf or /etc/rc.conf configuration files, depending
on how they prefer to load NVidia driver kernel module.

While you're at it; rm -rf /etc/X11/*

Code:
cat > /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-nvidia.conf <<DRIVER
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Card0"
        Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection
DRIVER


It's so easy to install and use, but for some reason everybody manages to completely mess this up.

Thank You i had everythign right but the
kld_list="nvidia-modeset"
 
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